Twiggy in My One and Only

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 8:59pm

I really love Twiggy on this recording. She doesn't have an amazing voice, but her performance is wonderful. I adore her version of Nice Work if You Can Get It, it's lovely.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 9:02pm

That whole show was great fun, with some wonderful design, choreography, orchestrations and performances. A lapse of taste here and there, but overall, a very sweet and winning show.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 9:47pm

I remember enjoying this show agreat deal, especially the performances of Tune, Twiggy, Denny Dillon (whatever happened to her?), and the legendary Honi Coles. Twiggy fit well into the show. While her voice a bit reedy, she really captured a certain 30s style and had a winning chemistry with Tune.

Reprise will be doing the show next month and it should be a treat.

[morosco]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:01pm

The original production was a delightful treat. I saw it when Sandy Duncan and her husband Don Correia took over the leads. From start to finish the show was dazzling. Tommy Tune direction at it's best. Georgia Engle was playing the Denny Dillon role. And that scene when Honi Coles teaches the character of Billy how to tap dance....WOW! It was as if the earth stood still during that scene. It was BRILLIANCE!

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:22pm

I thought the show was set in the 20's

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:29pm

20s, 30s ...... it's all the same if you look at that sort of old school elegance that Porter and the Gershwins (the show is based on Funny Face from the late 20s) traded in around that period in their shows.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 11:04pm

I loved this show. Twiggy was out the first time I saw it, but the show was in very capable hands with her understudy, Stephanie Ely. I was totally enamored with the tap dance in the water sequence.

[harris007]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 11:15pm

Denny Dillon was on the hbo show dream on

[allofmylife]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 11:15pm

This was such an original show. First off, the sets were SO weird. I can remember this huge object slowly revolving in the background - it must have been twenty or thirty feet high, but I can't remember if it was a circle or a square.

The dancing was wonderous. Honi Coles spent most of the show sitting in a barber chair, but when he got up, the world stood still. He made Tommy Tune look like a losing contestant on "America's Got Talent" (and by the way, can you imagine what will happen when that little girl from that show hits Broadway?) and that's a hare thing to do.

Twiggy was a huge surprise. She didn't just NOT SUCK, she was very good. I loved the show.

I've told this story before, but it bears repeating. I was in the bathroom at the urinal during the intermission (it was opening night, all tuxes and suits) and these two men in their 30's - Wall Street types - stand on either side of me. One says "So? Whaddaya think?" The other says "It's not bad. The girl's okay, the tall guy's a little "Light" but he sure can dance. It's just... I think the guy who wrote this stole some of the songs, cause I SWEAR I've heard some of it before somewhere..."

All Gershwin score.

[lovesclassics]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 11:16pm

I plan to see it at Reprise! next month. It stars Rachel York and Michael Gruber, plus Vicki Lewis, and Betty Garrett as Magix - a woman (obviously!) for this production. Should be great fun.

lc
Reprise Site

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 8/25/06 at 12:22am

Margo there is a diffrence, it is called the hem line! Just teasing.